Jobs: 2 Offers

Tue Mar 9 13:59:43 UTC 1999

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1/ From:  pvanmeurs at tegic.com
   Subject:  Computational Ling; Tegic Communications

2/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk
   Subject: Jobs at LEEDS University
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1/ From:  pvanmeurs at tegic.com
   Subject:  Computational Ling; Tegic Communications

Tegic Communications (http://www.tegic.com) is looking for a computational
linguist.

Description:

	The computational linguist will be responsible for research
and development to support Tegic's text input system in a variety of
languages If you are interested in working in the fast paced, exciting
area of research and development of commercial software at the
"cutting edge" of technology, then this is a job which will provide
you with such opportunities. Tegic offers many additional benefits,
including health insurance, dental, 401K plan, and (privately held)
stock options. The company is located in Seattle, Washington.

Required:

     Degree in computational linguistics with emphasis on lexicography
     and morphological analyzers
     Experience with research in computational linguistics
     Experience with development of commercial software products
     Strong programming skills

Desired:

     Familiarity with a large number of languages (preferably Eastern
     European/Semitic/Asian)
     Familiarity with the analysis of large corpora
     5+ years of experience in the field of computational linguistics
     Active participation in the community of computational linguistics
     Familiarity with C/C++, Perl, Windows NT operating system, compression
     algorithms helpful

Background:

	Tegic Communications (http:/www.tegic.com) is a fast growing
company which offers very competitive salaries.

	Tegic Communications, has developed software which allows
users to enter text on wireless devices such as wireless phones or
pagers in a fast and efficient manner.  We have been very successful
in securing licenses with most of the major cell phone manufacturers
and many of the smaller companies.

	Unlike the "multi-tap' method in which the user has to tap the
"2-ABC"-key three times to get a "c" for instance, the user can just
hit the "2-ABC" key once. The software will determine which word the
user is likely to be typing. In order for this to work in a variety of
languages we require an understanding of how people actually use the
language.

	For this we have developed an extensive suite of tools to
analyze large amounts of text corpora. The contributions a
computational linguist could make here are numerous. We are dealing
with issues of corpus selection, corpus classification, performance
analysis, morphological analysis and generation, word compounding,
syntactical analysis, text segmentation and many more. We are offering
an opportunity for the computational linguist to do research in many
areas. We are looking for someone who has research experience as well
as the ability to identify areas of improvement for our products and
deliver a solution, all in a timely manner.

	We have developed our technology for a dozen languages as well
as Chinese (stroke and phonetic based) and Japanese. Each language has
its own challenges and we are expanding quickly into many additional
languages.

	We are also looking into expanding into new technologies to
broaden our product base. This will require identification of and
research into many new opportunities, research for which we need the
contributions of a skilled computational linguist.

	If you have any additional questions please contact me via
e-mail.

Pim van Meurs
Manager Computational Linguistics
Linguistic Research and Development Group
Tegic Communications
2001 Western Ave Suite 210
Seattle WA 98121
(206) 343-7001	Phone
(206) 343-7004	Fax
pvanmeurs at tegic.com
http://www.tegic.com

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2/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk
   Subject: Jobs at LEEDS University

More academic vacancies in a research-led University:

Leeds University - SCHOOL OF COMPUTER STUDIES:
PERMANENT posts:
2 (possibly 3) LECTURESHIPS (closing date: 26 March 1999)
and RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (closing date: 11 March 1999) in
Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science
Also, TEMPORARY posts: 3 Research Fellows/Computational Scientists (1-3 years)

Leeds University - SCHOOL OF ENGLISH:
2 LECTURESHIPS (closing date: 12 March 1999)

Leeds University and the Ministry of Education Sultanate of Oman
In-service B.A. (Honours) TESOL programme
PROJECT MANAGER and 10 REGIONAL TUTORS based in Oman
(3 years; closing date: end March 1999)

We also have several support staff posts, eg:
UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICE: COMPUTING OFFICER  - Unix Support (18 March)
CENTRE FOR VIRTUAL WORKING SYSTEMS: COMPUTER TECHNICIAN (12 March)
MOTHER AND INFANT RESEARCH UNIT: Part-time IT COORDINATOR (12 March)

For details, email s.m.hartley at registry.leeds.ac.uk
For these and other vacancies at Leeds University, see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/

(NB I can tell you what a great place Leeds is to live in,
see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/city.htm -
BUT I can't tell you any more about these jobs -
Human Resources have the job descriptions etc.)

Eric Atwell, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
 School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
 EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk  TEL: (44)113-2335761  FAX: (44)113-2335468
 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html